vBulletin Forum Sideblocks - Nexia's Forum Sidebar Everywhere

Will add the forumhome sidebar everywhere logically possible to show it, with choices of locations.

First Screenshots show how it is "before/after" on the calendar page, doing some esthetical changes... some templates are less obvious!

Third screeny is about the settings you can change to your wills.

I take requests if you want other templates to be available...

Actual Pages where the sidebar can be activated on release date, Mar 21th, 2012:

Forumhome (can even be deactivate and show sidebar elsewhere)
Main Albums Pages
Announcements
Calendar
FAQ
Forum Display
Main Groups Pages
Member List
Who's Online
Show Thread
Main Blog Pages

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# How To use Nexia's Forum Sidebar Everywhere:


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# Simple Installation:

1- upload via ftp the content of the /UPLOAD_THIS/ folder in your forum's base directory.

2- Import the Product file included in the /IMPORT_THIS/ folder.

3- AdminCP >> Settings >> Options >> Forum Sidebar and Block Options

Follow that path and change the list of pages you want the sidebar to show up.


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# Customization:

If you have customized templates on the pages affected by this engine, you will need to edit it's related template to make it fit your custom design. To do so, it's simple... to edit our version of SHOWTHREAD, find SHOWTHREAD_SIDEBAR and edit it accordingly.
*(you can also hire nexialys to do the job!)


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# What to Know:

This tool originally replace the pages you browse by pages that contain the sidebar you already have on Forum Home.

How it work is simple. Each page you see on your browser is made from a "template" containing the proper codes to display each elements you see in the page. For the default vBulletin, only the "Forum Home" page contain the codes to display a sidebar. But maybe you would like to see that sidebar in other pages where it would help the navigation of the visitors ?!

That's what this tool intend to do... add the sidebar in precise pages that deserve to. In the "Forum Sidebar and Block Options" page, you can now select what page will show the sidebar...

To make it more even, the FORUMHOME template was updated as well to look like all the others... as the sidebar is supposed to be similar everywhere.


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# Why not adding everything via plugin instead of switching templates?:

When we add that kind of content via plugin, we face the possibility to have a template that is incompatible with the hooks we need, or a style that we can not trust because written poorly.

We switch templates so your designer can edit the default templates we provide and make them better if necessary. It is tangible content, it requires less server process, and you can customize it for each style you have... the other technique does not comply with that option.

EDIT: update on april 10th, now deactivate automatically for Mobile styles... *(as requested hundreds of times! )
EDIT: update on april 11th, edited the product file to fit forumhome for mobiles, sorry!

EDIT: august 9th, 2012: version 4.2 is now supported - memberlist and other pages are now showing proper content... sorry for the late, summer vacations with 7 kids is a bit complicated to deal with!

[ihstiv]

Originally Posted by vbenhancer

actually, you are right AND wrong...

what you found is in the FORUMHOME template, in vB 4.2 template... not in my template with is based on the 4.1.12 version of the FORUMHOME template...

so yes, i have to update my template to fit both versions !!!

Happy to be wrong, but I didn't see that snippet in the vb 4.2 template.. only in the NEX template. regardless, seems like it shouldn't be there. cheers.

[ihstiv]

Does anybody know how to implement the strip_bbcode() function or similar, so that we don't see bbcode displayed in the sidebar content? TIA

update:

I realized this is only occuring on my forum home page which uses vb cms widget, so I added this code:
$thread['previewtext'] = strip_bbcode($thread['previewtext'], true, true, false, true, false);

after this line:
$thread['previewtext'] = fetch_censored_text($parser->get_preview($thread['message'], $this->default_previewlen, $allow_html));

..in this file:
forum/packages/vbcms/widget/recentthreads.php

.. and it removed the bbcode.

apologies that this is not directly related to this mod.. This mod already removes bbcode from sidebar content as desired.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by ihstiv

Does anybody know how to implement the strip_bbcode() function or similar, so that we don't see bbcode displayed in the sidebar content? TIA

update:

I realized this is only occuring on my forum home page which uses vb cms widget, so I added this code:
$thread['previewtext'] = strip_bbcode($thread['previewtext'], true, true, false, true, false);

after this line:
$thread['previewtext'] = fetch_censored_text($parser->get_preview($thread['message'], $this->default_previewlen, $allow_html));

..in this file:
forum/packages/vbcms/widget/recentthreads.php

.. and it removed the bbcode.

apologies that this is not directly related to this mod.. This mod already removes bbcode from sidebar content as desired.

If it's not directly related then you should not post such things in a modification thread as it derails the topic per say. Please open a new thread (possibly in https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=252 ) and ask this there .

[reteep]

Any news on a possible update for usercp etc.?

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by reteep

Any news on a possible update for usercp etc.?

sorry, i was on family vacations, i'm back since yesterday... i'll repost on that soon

[vbenhancer]

Originally Posted by reteep

Any news on a possible update for usercp etc.?

the usercp is my next update, i had to re-upload a compatible version for vB 4.2, which i forgot to post during my family vacations... it's now done!

[ywwz]

Originally Posted by glen290

Working fine on my site with DBtechs Forum Live feed

tagged if these two mods work together!

[ywwz]

Originally Posted by glen290

Working fine on my site with DBtechs Forum Live feed

tks for sharing! will install it tonight! ahahahahahaha so happy ah

[KySportsReport]

Working great for me, thanks! Just what we wanted to get our content into the forums so the users can see the stories and such. Thrilled this was out there, mucho gracias!

[JackieChun]

I'm not sure if I imported this right, but the options of different pages are not showing up for me. I uploaded the nex folder to the vbulletin directory and then imported product-nex_sidebar_everywhere_42 on the Products page in admincp. I created a random product name and ID, since it wasn't there by default.